Due April 2009: Episode 17 - We're off of work and ready to push, time for DH's to attend to that bush!!

[BabyBolat]

Inspired by our Smutty x

Swaliswan lol i'm so going to be that old lady when i'm old just for fun lol

Re; placenta..i read a VERY scary article in a preg magazne this week on 'leaving placenta attached' (insert suitable word here, I'm sure there is one). Yuck - i actually spat out my coffee. Apparently it drops off after 7-14 days, and the wman in question did amit 'my husband got fed up with the smell, especially when it leaked all over the bed on your first night' ewwwwwwwwwww!!!!

I want to be that old lady too! I have spent far too many hours cleaning up other people to not get my own back on the world!

Right - I am utterly speechless Maths. Honestly. Flabbergasted.

When I'm a little old lady I want a mobility scooter, but I want to rev it up a bit so that I can bomb along the pavements with wild abandon making everyone leap out of my path.

Hehehe

I don't get that Maths. You should expel the placenta whether you want to or not. Do they mean leaving it attached to the baby? I have really bad pregnancy brain that I can't understand.

tell me about it! try eating a muffin whilst reading THAT!

Maths - did she tuck it up in the moses basket with the baby? Swaddle it?

Swaliswan - wee'd better change our names to Mrs I P Freely and Mrs I Wetthebed

Lulu, there was an old man who used to terrorise people on the high street where I live by driving at them in his mobility scooter. It was all over the local newspaper. I think that he eventually got arrested when they managed to catch him.

Mathsmummy - eeeewwwwwwww, lol what a waste of a muffin

Swali I guess it was still attached to baby via umbilical chord and then left to drop off along with the chord.

Uuuuuuuurgh - I found the chord stump plenty gross enough thank you.

You leave the cord attached to the baby, and the placenta to the cord, until it falls off. It's called lotus birth. Apparently newborns are quite fond of their placentas, having had them for a plaything for 9 months, who can blame them.

Lulu, I think she just wanted to keep the placentas as they were 'part of her babies' or something like that. And where else to keep them but buried in your garden? As they didn't have a garden of their own, they had to use my parent's garden. Don't think my dad was too impressed!

Sorry if the use of the word 'wee' nearly made you PYSL, Nutty. You have to understand that DD is approaching potty training age so we have lots of talk about wee and poo in our household atm!

Swaliswan - you sure it was a man??? might have been Boff

she wrapped it in a muslin (!!)

obviously she salted it first

the husband got fed up with the juice going everywhere though.

this gets WORSE people!!!

Right must watch Larkrise to Candleford with DH, he's begging me...

thanks Schulte, 'lotus birth' was the phrase i was groping for..

Ok Schulte - my mother kept all my baby teeth as they fell out. They are in a little china box on her dressing table. And lots of people find that really gross.... I guess everyone has things they need to do.

Off to google Lotus birth now.

no no it was in reference to me and you jumping into other peoples beds when we're old and making waterbeds, no offence meant swaliswan.

Wikipedia on lotus birth otherwise known as Umbilical Nonseverance

Maths that is way TMI. I feel quite sick now. And given some of the things I have dealt with in my work, it takes a lot for bodily pieces to make me feel sick.

dear GOD don't google it people !

No offence taken, Nutty. I thought that you were sniggering at the word 'wee'. It makes me laugh

aaaah